Clinton, Hillary Rodham

Summary: "For the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals what she was thinking and feeling during one of the most controversial and unpredictable presidential elections in history. Now free from the constraints of running, Hillary takes you inside the intense personal experience of becoming the first woman nominated for president by a major party in an election marked by rage, sexism, exhilarating...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 CLINTON, HILLARY RODHAM CLI

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD B CLINTON

Ephron, Delia

Summary: After Delia Ephron channeled her frustration with Verizon into a New York Times op ed, she got an email from a man she dated briefly in college. He soon flew to see her. They were crazily in love. What could go wrong? Acute myeloid leukemia, which also took her beloved older sister, struck her three months into this new blissful life.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 EPHRON, DELIA EPH

Fisher, Joely

Summary: Actress Joely Fisher shares her unconventional coming-of-age and stories of the family members and costars dearest to her heart, while stripping bare her own misadventures.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 921 FISHER, JOELY FIS

Gonell, Aquilino

Summary: Aquilino Gonell came to the United States from the Dominican Republic as a young boy. He joined the army to pay for college, saw action in Iraq, and returned home with PTSD. Believing in the promise of our government, he focused on healing himself and supporting his family. His hard work paid off when he landed a coveted position with the United States Capitol Police and rose to the rank of...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD 921 GONELL, AQUILINO GON

Greene, Jayson

Summary: "As the book opens: two-year-old Greta Greene is sitting with her grandmother on a park bench on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. A brick crumbles from a windowsill overhead, striking her unconscious, and she is immediately rushed to the hospital. But although it begins with this event and with the anguish Jayson and his wife, Stacy, confront in the wake of their daughter's trauma and the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 GREENE, JAYSON GRE

Howard, Ron

Summary: Ron and Clint Howard examine their childhoods in detail and reveal a tight four-person family unit that helped the brothers survive "child-actor syndrome" to become fulfilled adults.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 920 HOW

Lovato, Roberto

Summary: Roberto Lovato shares a timely and no-holds-barred tale of gang life, guerilla warfare, immigration, and intergenerational trauma.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 LOV

Obama, Michelle

Summary: Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter, spouse, friend, and First Lady, Michelle Obama shares the habits and principles she has developed to adapt to change and overcome obstacles.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2022

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 OBA

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 OBAMA, MICHELLE OBA

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 921 OBAMA, MICHELLE OBA

Smith, Stephen A. (Stephen Anthony)

Summary: Stephen A. Smith has never been handed anything, nor was he an overnight success. Growing up poor in Queens, the son of Caribbean immigrants and the youngest of six children, he was a sports-obsessed kid who faced a number of struggles, from undiagnosed dyslexia to getting enough cereal to fill his bowl. As a basketball player at Winston-Salem State University, he got a glimmer of his true...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2023

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 SMITH, STEPHEN A SMI

Alexie, Sherman

Summary: A searing, deeply moving memoir about family, love, and loss from the critically acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award winner. When his mother passed away at the age of 78, Sherman Alexie responded the only way he knew how: he wrote. The result is this stunning memoir. Featuring 78 poems, 78 essays and intimate family photographs, Alexie shares raw, angry, funny, profane, tender memories...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 ALEXIE, SHERMAN Ale

Browder, Bill

Summary: When Bill Browder's lawyer was murdered in a Moscow jail, Browder vowed to bring the killers to justice. But in tracking them, he uncovered Vladimir Putin's campaign to steal untold billions and kill anyone in his way.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 BROWDER, BILL BRO

Davis, Viola

Summary: In this memoir, award-winning actress Viola Davis shares her story, in her own words, from her coming-of-age in Rhode Island to the present day.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 DAVIS VIOLA DAV

Diaz, Joey Coco

Summary: Joey Diaz wasn't always a star, but he was always a comedian, it just took him a while to figure it out. To be fair, much of his youth was spent in addiction and depression until he found his calling.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 DIAZ, JOEY DIA

Ford, Ashley C.

Summary: Somebody's Daughter steps into the world of growing up a poor Black girl in Indiana with a family fragmented by incarceration, exploring how isolating and complex such a childhood can be. Through poverty, adolescence, and a fraught relationship with her mother, Ashley C. Ford wishes she could turn to her father for hope and encouragement. There are just a few problems: he's in prison, and she...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2021

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 FORD, ASHLEY C. FOR

Lawson, Jenny

Summary: "As Jenny Lawson's hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In Broken (in the best possible way), she explores her experimental treatment of transcranial magnetic stimulation with brutal honesty. But also with brutal humor: "People do different things to distract themselves during each treatment. I embroider. It feels fitting. I'm being magnetically stabbed in the head...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 LAW

Page, Elliot

Summary: A groundbreaking coming-of-age memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor Elliot Page. A generation-defining actor and one of the most famous trans advocates of our time, Elliot will now be known as an uncommon literary talent, as he shares never-before-heard details and intimate interrogations on gender, love, mental health, relationships, and Hollywood.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2023

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 PAGE, ELLIOT PAG
1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD 921 PAGE, ELLIOT PAG

Spade, David

Summary: Comedian David Spade takes fans back to his childhood as a wannabe cool younger brother and recounts his excruciating road-tour to fame, dishing about his time crisscrossing the country as a comedian, for low-paying gigs and dragging along his mother's old suitcase full of props. He also covers his years on SNL, including his close working relationship and friendship with Chris Farley.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2021

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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 921 SPADE, DAVID SPA

Spears, Britney

Summary: In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice and her truth was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her incredible journey and the strength at the core of one of the greatest performers in pop music history. Written with remarkable...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 SPEARS, BRITNEY SPE

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 921 SPE

Clinton, Hillary Rodham

Summary: The former secretary of state relates her experiences as the first woman candidate nominated for president by a major party, discussing the sexism, criticism, and double standards she had to confront, and how she coped with a devastating loss.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 CLINTON, HILLARY RODHAM CLI

Gilbert, Melissa

Summary: Known for her childhood role as Laura Ingalls Wilder on the classic NBC show Little House on the Prairie, Melissa Gilbert has spent nearly her entire life in Hollywood. From Dancing with the Stars to a turn in politics, she was always on the lookout for her next project. She just had no idea that her latest one would be completely life changing. When her husband introduces her to the wilds of...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 GILBERT, MELISSA GIL

Pentland, Jenny

Summary: Jenny Pentland's childhood was a literal sitcom. Many of the storylines for her mother's smash hit series, Roseanne, were drawn from Pentland's early family life in working-class Denver. By adolescence, Jenny struggled with anxiety and eating issues, and she and her siblings were sent on a tour of the self-help movement of the '80s. In this memoir, Pentland reveals what it's like to grow up as...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 921 PENTLAND, JENNY PEN

Perry, Matthew

Summary: Matthew Perry takes readers onto the soundstage of the most successful sitcom of all time while opening up about his private struggles with addiction.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD 921 PERRY, MATTHEW PER

Porter, Billy

Summary: It's easy to be yourself when who and what you are is in vogue. But growing up Black and gay in America has never been easy. Actor and survivor Billy Porter shares his life story in his own words.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2021

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 PORTER, BILLY POR